Quotes by Voltaire

“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.”

Topics: best, events, history

history of this quote “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” by Voltaire

Topics: best, history, impossible

history of this quote “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” by Voltaire

Topics: existed, history, invented

history of this quote “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” by Voltaire

Topics: history, hundred, kills

history of this quote “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.” by Voltaire

Topics: discovery, history, lord

history of this quote “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: always, blaming, circumstances

history of this quote “I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.” by Voltaire

Topics: adoring, detesting, enemies

history of this quote “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?” by Voltaire

Topics: best, brothers, history

history of this quote “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.” by Voltaire

Topics: consists, generally, government

history of this quote “Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” by Voltaire

Topics: boredom, evils, great

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